Beach Forte

The Praia do Forte is located in Cabo Frio, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

Constitutes the city's main beach, 7.5 kilometers long. Therein lies the Fort of St. Matthew's Cabo Frio, built in the seventeenth century.

Cabo Frio

Cabo Frio is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Abuts the east Armação dos Búzios, Arraial do Cabo south Araruama and St. Peter's Village in the west, and Casimiro de Abreu and Silva Jardim north. It is the seventh oldest municipality of the Brazilian Federation. It is the main town in the Lakes Region. It has 186,222 inhabitants, according to census conducted by IBGE in 2010. It is well known for its tourist attractions, like Praia do Forte, the main beach and at parties.

Paris Square in the city of Rio de Janeiro

The square was restored and reopened in 1992, when he was surrounded by railings, aiming at its preservation.

The square was built on a landfill. In principle, would avenues Rio Branco and Beira Mar street to the Glory. It was later shortened to make way for plaza Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca. The square was designed as a gem of the belle epoque.

At the time of construction of the subway, the square was completely destroyed but was rebuilt after 1992. It is a popular location for walkers and sportspersons. Promotes race training due to dirt floors. It has custody of municipal policing during the day, but it is not very safe at night.

Monastery of St. Benedict

The Monastery of São Bento do Rio de Janeiro was founded by Benedictine monks from Bahia in 1590. The monastery still functions as such, existing beside one of the most important educational establishments and the traditional Rio de Janeiro: the College of St. Benedict, founded in 1858, which formed a considerable amount of Brazilian celebrities, such as Pixies, Benjamin Constant, Noel Rosa, Antonio Silva Jardim, Villa-Lobos, and others.

Arcos da Lapa in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Arcos da Lapa, located in the Lapa district in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Considered as the architectural larger undertaken in Brazil during the colonial period, is today one of the postcards of the city, the most representative symbol of Old Rio preserved in the bohemian neighborhood of Lapa.

Soccer stadium of San Gennaro

The Vasco da Gama Stadium, better known as San Gennaro, due to its location being part of the street of the same name, is the football stadium owned by the Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama. It was inaugurated on April 21, 1927, with a match between Vasco and Santos, won by the visitors. Its facade is listed by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage.

Blue Grotto in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Blue Grotto

Arraial do Cabo is located 180 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro in a prime position by the vast nature. Confined to the north by Cabo Frio and Araruama Lake, south and east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west with the municipality of Araruama.

Gliding in Sao Conrado, Rio de Janeiro

The postcard of the neighborhood is the Sugar Loaf, the largest block of stone by the sea on the planet and is the main point of practical flight-free in the city. The ramp next to Pedra Bonita practitioners leap from gliding and paragliding and land on the final stretch bordering the neighborhood, known as Pepino beach.

City of Angra dos Reis

Angra dos Reis is a Brazilian municipality located in the Zona Sul Fluminense in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is located at an altitude of 6 meters and has 365 in its offshore ilhas.Possui an area of 816.3 km ². The neighboring municipalities are Paraty, Rio Claro and Mangalore in the territory of the state, and Bananal and São José do Barreiro São Paulo on the side.

Today, because of its beautiful beaches and nearby regions Creek became strong point of tourism not only statewide but also nationally. It has over three hundred islands, many of them had owners for national and international celebrities, the biggest one being called the Big Island.
Most of the city is surrounded by hills, which contributed to the beginning of 2010 several homes and hostels suffering the effects of landslides, especially on the Big Island.

Islands in Focus

Long Island
Gipóia
Island Cataguas
Peregrine Island
Isle of Odessa
Itanhangá Island
Paqueta Island
Maia Island
Ilha dos Meros
Island of Pigs
Francisca Island
Big Island
Sandri Island
Botinas Islands

Surfing in Rio de Janeiro

Surf

Surfing is an extreme sport because of its creative aspect, whose proficiency is checked by the degree of difficulty of movements performed to monitor the movement of an ocean wave on a surfboard, surfboard named, as this wave moves in toward the beach. Since the Rio beaches ideal places to practice sports because of the waves and beauty.

Piscinão Palm Beach Environmental Park or Palm

Piscinão Palm Beach Environmental Park or Palm

Piscinão or Palm Beach Environmental Park of the Palms is a recreation area consisting of an artificial beach related to a public swimming pool with salt water, installed in the neighborhood of Palms, in the north of Rio de Janeiro.

The pool was assembled using sea water for local people, mostly children, to take advantage of the prevailing climate of the coastline of the Bay of Guanabara and reset the rates of drowning.
The big pool has reached 60,000 people receive in a single weekend.

Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2011

Samba Schools

In late 1920, Brazil sought to create an identity that differentiate it within the new world order established after the First World War. The carnival party and the new base rate of newly emerged black, samba, would become the basis for formulating a sense of Brazilianness. The appreciation of the samba and the blackness eventually increasing the interest of intellectuals in the new "samba groups" which appeared in the hills of Rio. These groups would be present "in the asphalt, "ie, away from the ghettos of the hills, called samba schools.

City of Buzios

Frame Búzios or just, as is generally known, is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro located in the Lakes Region. It is located about 165 km from state capital.

It is a peninsula with eight miles long and 23 beaches, getting from one side of Ecuador ocean currents and other ocean currents from the south pole, which means it has both beaches with warm water and cold water. Among the main beaches are highlighted Geribá, John Fernandes, Horseshoe, Ferradurinha, Frame, Manguinhos, Turtle, Bones, Tucuns, Brava and Ox-Eye, the latter reserved for the practice of nudism.

The tourist and the local real estate occupation started after the international fame due to Buzios by French actress Brigitte Bardot, who visited in 1964. Today the city is so visited by tourists around the world and is known for 'the Brazilian Saint-Tropez'.

Armação, with its strong winds, is ideal for the practice of sailing, and gliding. It is a city that houses different cultures with a large number of foreigners.